On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Roman Kyrylych > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ...and that bug is fixed there long before in FreeBSD's libfetch. >> Thanks for info, Aaron! I wasn't aware that NetBSD has their own libfetch. >> Looks like NetBSD's libfetch was heavily reworked in some places, >> including some new features added. > > Indeed NetBSD's libfetch looked pretty good last time I checked. > >> The only thing it's missing from FreeBSD's lbfetch is >> support for HTTP 1.1 If-Modified-Since behavior >> (which was only added less than 2 weeks ago). >> > > I believe they merge the changes from times to times, so it should be > included eventually, we just need to be patient :) > >> There's one Linux-compatability fix after 2.20: >> http://cvsweb.se.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/net/libfetch/files/ftp.c.diff?r1=1.24;r2=1.25 >> Not sure if it's important enough for us though. >> > > That is very cool, it is actually the only patch we needed : > http://code.phraktured.net/?p=libfetch.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux > The only thing left is to provide a linux Makefile, which Aaron already did.
Actually, that patch isn't even needed if we build with CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE". It still should be merged upstream though, I'll poke the maintainer at some point. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
